Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome! - Page 3202

Thatd be fun! lets do it! whens the show reg deadline? and the cost?

Looky at my new baby

Pink how many babies?  I didn't see any action in mine yet, but they are not due till tomorrow.  Got the electric in the new brooder and moved into the Nursery Room I moved my youngest babies into the bottom brooder and will add babies from the bottom up.  I need to move the batch with your other two Marans Chicks into the main shop.  Just for more room.

 I don't hatch out the little tiny first eggs, heck some of those first eggs don't even have a yolk, just albumen. Since the first time I found a small pullet egg and it didn't have a yolk..I always have to break every one of them open that I find to see if they are lacking. It's totally weird to crack open and egg not see a yolk.

Anyway, I have started hatching new layers eggs as early as about 5 weeks or after they have stopped laying their first very tiny pullet eggs. As long as they are fertile....toss them in and try them out. You will be surprised at what you can get to hatch.

I'd be out of my mind if I waited to hatch their eggs until the girls turned 1 year old.

11 fuzz balls so far. 15 eggs total.

4 left have pipped and one of them is almost here. I have one wrapped in a wet paper towel because he pipped near the wrong end made a good size hole I can see in. I could see he had started to dry out even though the humidity is at 63% and must have pipped a vein because there is some blood. I am watching that one closely.

Had one of the best days I have had in a great long while. My brother and his wife came up to pick up their chicks and ended up staying all day and I'm having a great hatch. It was good to spend the day with them and especially to spend that time with him as he is ill. He and I pulled up a seat on the floor next to the woodstove and chatted and laughed all day like we were kids again and hadn't missed a beat even though it had been more than 7 years since we have seen each other. What a good day!

Looky at my new baby

11 fuzz balls so far. 15 eggs total.

4 left have pipped and one of them is almost here. I have one wrapped in a wet paper towel because he pipped near the wrong end made a good size hole I can see in. I could see he had started to dry out even though the humidity is at 63% and must have pipped a vein because there is some blood. I am watching that one closely.

Had one of the best days I have had in a great long while. My brother and his wife came up to pick up their chicks and ended up staying all day and I'm having a great hatch. It was good to spend the day with them and especially to spend that time with him as he is ill. He and I pulled up a seat on the floor next to the woodstove and chatted and laughed all day like we were kids again and hadn't missed a beat even though it had been more than 7 years since we have seen each other. What a good day!